the one guy i know who predicted something like this is my pal john thorn, the mlb historian. he picked the nats and yankees to meet in the world series. >> schieffer: let's talk about something tony lasorda brought up and that is stephen straussberg. i think it is indicative of baseball as we know it today and the baseball of yesterday. you know, when i was growing up, you played right through your injuries. and the other part is, pitchers pitched nine innings. where did we get this deal with pitchers only pitch six innings now? i mean, conditioning is better. diet is better. training is better. and yet our pitchers can't pitch nine inning any more. we think they're doing great if they pitch just six innings and with strausberg, of course, he had the arm surgery, and they didn't him to wear himself out this year, so they shut him down when the pennant was still in doubt. really the play-off who was going to be first was still very much in doubt. >> one of the things that's really constructive for me is to compare him to sandy koufax in the 1965 world series when he started th